You're building muscles, and others are already practicing their voices.
Text | Shervin
A few days ago, the prologue of Double Eleven kicked off, and Li Jiaqi's live broadcast room sold 10.6 billion yuan on October 20, which once again made netizens drop their jaws. Many people envy Li Jiaqi's daily entry into doujin, but they don't know that the internet celebrity anchor is also plagued by injuries.
Li Jiaqi himself said that due to excessive use of his voice, the doctor had told him that he could no longer work like this, but in order not to lose the powder, he could not stop for a day. Last year, Han Hong was a guest in Li Jiaqi's live broadcast room, and Geng Zhi complained to him: "Unfortunately, the voice is abolished." ”
In fact, there are many people who suffer from voice troubles, which we may not have thought.
For example, people who have damaged nerves that control vocal cord activity after thyroid surgery, people who want to change their voice after transgendering, boys who use their voices to sound "feminine" during voice change, and so on. In the past, some patients with voice problems could only undergo surgery, but in recent years, "voice training" has gradually spread in China, and some patients have begun to seek the help of professional doctors to change their voices through training.
"Voice training" is usually one-on-one, a bit like a vocal teacher taking a class. According to experts, more and more people are seeking voice training at present, because it can not only treat common voice diseases, but also beautify the voice and improve the value of "speech".
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This summer, a young man in his 20s came to Professor Chen Zhen's outpatient clinic to see a doctor, and as soon as he opened his mouth, even laymen could hear the young man's hoarse voice.
Chen Zhen is one of the few professional professionals in China, and the clinical experience of "voice training" is experienced. Over the years, word of mouth among patients has spread among them, and many people know him.
The young man told Professor Chen that he had a full-time job and used his spare time a year ago to be a live singer online, singing five days a week and four hours a night. In the past six months, the young man has found that his voice is becoming more and more mute, and the range of voice is getting narrower and narrower, until he can't broadcast live at all.
After Chen Zhen's examination, the young man is a more typical vocal cord nodule caused by excessive voice use and improper vocal methods, and traditional drug treatment can only deal with vocal cord edema and inflammation in the acute stage, and the symptoms are not cured.
"You can think of vocal cord summaries as calluses on the vocal cords." Chen Zhen said.
Anatomical drawing of the vocal cords
The airflow through the larynx causes the vocal cords to vibrate, and there is our voice. The place where the vocal cords are most stressed is the midpoint of the vocal cords, which is subjected to the greatest impact and friction, so the mucous membrane of the vocal cords at this location is easy to thicken, and the elasticity and elasticity of the vocal cords are reduced after forming a small knot, the vocal range becomes narrower, the treble does not go up, and the bass does not come down. Vocal cord nodules can also cause incomplete vocal cord closures, air leakage during vocalization, resulting in hoarseness.
In the past, the professional group that appeared in the vocal cord summary because of excessive use of the voice was mainly teachers, singers, actors, trainers, and other people who needed to speak for a long time. Now, network anchors have joined in, and the vocal cords have become their occupational disease.
Chen Zhen said that the voice training of vocal cord summaries is to teach patients to use "ingenuity" to make vocal impacts softer and less frictional, so that the "calluses" in the vocal cords fade, the voice is restored, and "long-term peace and stability".
The process of voice training is one-on-one, a bit like a vocal teacher in class, the doctor can adjust the vocal method according to the problems that exist when the patient speaks, reduce the burden on the vocal cords, and can also strengthen the laryngeal muscle function through training, so that the throat is more durable and the vocal range is wider.
There are objective evaluation indicators of the effect of treatment, and the doctor will also record the patient before and after treatment, so that the effect of treatment can be intuitively heard.
Their voices are feminine appeals
Some people practice their voices as a requirement of their profession, while for others, changing their voices is one of the ways to present themselves and seek social recognition.
The voice not only has the difference between "good" and "bad", but also a gender sign. Usually, the male voice is low and thick, and the female voice is high and soft. This difference is mainly determined by the frequency of vibration of the vocal cords: the vocal cords vibrate about 240 times per second when women speak, and about 120 times per second in men. That is, females are octaves taller than males.
Only very few people who are born with conditions or who have received special training can make the voice of the opposite sex across genders.
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Now, there is a group of people who urgently need to change their voices, they are their gender identity and biological gender does not match the transsexual population, according to folk legend, this group of people is not small, the mainland may be about 4 million.
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Chen Zhen introduced that the transsexual population is mostly male to female, and through some online medical platforms, the transsexual population who consulted him about "voice training" is also mainly based on the femaleization of the voice. There are more people consulting, and Chen Zhen has become famous in the transsexual circle.
In addition to "voice training", another way to feminize the voice is surgery. Surgery can shorten the part of the vocal cord vibration or increase the vocal cord tension, so that the frequency of the vocal cord vibration is increased. However, surgery has strict requirements for the condition of the vocal cords, and there are also certain risks, and fewer people are really willing to undergo surgery.
People with transsexual disorder can generally change the pitch through training, so vocal training is more acceptable for this part of the people who have a feminine voice. Chen Zhen introduced that the main content of voice femininity training is to use scientific vocal methods to gradually raise pitch and change timbre.
"The boundary of male and female sexual voices is generally at 175 hertz, through training to gradually raise the pitch, across this boundary, after training to reach 180 Hz, 190 or even 200 Hz, then the degree of voice femininity is relatively high. Then through training to improve the timbre, so that the voice becomes softer, the voice is more feminine. ”
Zhen Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Distinguished Pediatric Specialist, Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Practicing Speech-Language Pathologist (CCC-SLP)
Perhaps everyone will feel that the above group of people is a minority after all, and most people do not have the special training of voice change needs. But in fact, many minors will also encounter trouble in this regard.
There are some adolescent boys, the voice change stage will deliberately maintain their previous timbre, developed a wrong way of sound, this vocal problem is called "male voice female tone", some children because of this voice by others joke "girly".
Chen Zhen introduced that there is also a voice problem that is easy to occur in children, muscle tension dysphonia, some children habitually pull their throats to speak, the sound seems to be squeezed out of the throat, it sounds very difficult. These problems can be completely solved through voice training.
It turns out that in order to have a good voice, so many people have practiced.
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